Melike Acar - melikeacar@hotmail.com
Melike received her B.A. from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in Psychological Counseling and Guidance. Her research interest areas include self-efficacy, self-regulation, achievement motivation in context, and adolescent development in context of family, social class, and culture.

Lisa Baty

Scott Bowditch
is a second-year graduate student of developmental psychology at San Francisco State University, where his undergraduate training took place. He obtained a BA in developmental psychology here in 1997. His current research focuses on the immigrant Chinese community and he is designing a study to explore the phenomenon of child cultural brokering (when immigrant children translate for their parents and relatives in grown-up settings) within this group. Other interests include the effects of divorce on children, teaching and survey research. He will be applying to PhD programs and plans to some day teach at the University level.

Kristy Gould

Brianna Heinrich - blheinrich@cs.com
Brianna received her B.A. in Psychology and her B.S. in Human Development from University of California, Davis. This is her first year as a graduate student of Developmental Psychology at SFSU. Brianna hopes to receive her M.A. in May, 2004 and enroll in a teaching credential program thereafter.

Peter Morse

Tanya Soohoo

Moin U. Syed - moin@sfsu.edu
Moin received his B.A. in Psychology from SFSU in 2003 and his M.A, in Developmental Psychology from SFSU in 2004. His master’s thesis, titled Birth Order and Personality: A Methodological Study, explored birth order as a research variable and provided a critical analysis of its explanatory power. Moin is now in a doctoral program in Developmental Psychology at UC Santa Cruz working with Margarita Azmitia. His primary research interests are in identity, with an emphasis on the intersection of personal identity and social identity in adolescence and emerging adulthood, particularly concerning ethnic minority and mixed-ethnic individuals.